Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-151).

1. Introduction -- What information society? -- Whose information society? -- The shape of the book -- 2. Children in the media culture like fish in water -- The information society in machines -- The new communities of TV-watching -- Use of mobile phones: gaming outranks calling -- Use of computers: a multifunctional machine -- 3. The media in children's everyday lives -- Children like all kinds of TV programs -- Mobile parenting and organization of daily life -- The significance of the computer for children: a toy and a useful machine -- Restrictions and liberties in media use: the adaptation hypothesis -- 4. Free time in a media culture -- Hobbies and their accumulation -- Children's ideal professional and fifty fun and sad moments -- Gaming: learning or pure fun? -- 5. Media culture in school -- Media culture as a pedagogical force -- General skills in media culture -- Children want to participate -- 6. Children as participants in the information society -- Everyday life in the family and the culture of being busy -- Who participates in what? -- Arenas for children's participation -- 7. Information society for children? -- 8. Conducting a survey on children -- Methodological staring points -- How did we conduct the query? -- What kind of data did we have? -- How did we analyze the data?